Is it too late to start power-leveling?

CitizenKane · Nov 22, 2015

Hi,

For all the hours I've dropped on Skyrim I still am pretty ignorant on the intricacies of certain game play mechanics, particularly leveling. So my question is this:

I am currently at level 30. I have a couple of skills at level 15 that I want to increase (to 100 or as close as possible, in as short a space of time as possible).

I know that the higher your level, the longer it takes to get to the next level. But does this same apply to individual skills? E.g. because I'm now at level 30, will it take me longer to get a certain skill from 15 to 100 than it would have if I had started to level that skill at level 1?

One obvious obstacle I can see is that because I'm at a higher level it will take me longer to get perk points and make my way up the skill tree, but I have about half a dozen spare perk points which should help me along, so assuming this won't be an issue, can anyone advise as to whether it will take me longer to level up on a couple of skills now because I'm starting to do so at a higher level?

Many thanks!

Sah · Nov 22, 2015

hello Sir CitizenKane

you are talking to a power level specialist

example of leveling at level 50, Alteration from 15 to 100 using the telekinesis spell will give you 2 full levels only (that's 2 perks) if you could get the spell at a very low level around level 10(witch you can) you would have see at least 10 levels gained,

use lovers stone for a continuous 15% across all skills.............playing legendary will give you the most points

skills that will increase in the game like it or not

Speech...........will increase continuously throughout the game
Lock-piking.......will increase thru out the game (thousands of locks to unlock) NOTE if you pick a lock once it wont give you points if you unlock it again
Sneak.............will increase thru out the game
and all of you main combat skills depending on your choice of build will increase.

skills to work on..................regardless of build (unless you are playing with personal restrictions)

smithing
enchanting
alchemy
pickpocket

skills that can be exploited

illusion using the muffle spell
alteration using the telekinesis spell
congeries using bound sword spell....NOTE if you use the spell to make a bound sword to kill a wolf (NO big increase) make a bound sword when a death lord is around give you a massive increase, the bigger the opponent the more the skill will increase.
destruction.......with spells
Restoration with all healing spells................that means you have to take on damage so you can heal.

all skills maxed out to 100 will get you just over level 80..............for anything above that you will need to make all your skills legendary & drop them back to 15 again

lover stone 15% Vs warriors/mage/thief stone 20%
on average and using a game that is about level 30............the lovers stone will give you the best increase, yes you may lose any sleep bonuses (10%) BUT you can only work one set of skills with the 30%...........all other skills will get a 0 bonus
NOTE if you become a werewolf you lose all sleep bonuses for ever or until you become human again (cured) so its wise to go for the lovers stone

Exception to the rule...................your about to do a big smithing session, you have collected all the ore & gems ext, smithing is only around 40.............you could get it up to 73 with this session, then the extra 5 % from the warriors stone 20% vs 15% lovers will take it up to 75.

a Warring about power increasing
1 maxing out skills early..............lock-picking can be maxed out with the help of a trainer very early, so your level 41 & lockpicing is at 100 that means you get nothing for the rest of the game, you open locks with no reward on skills............same apply with all skills.............smithing at 100 no need for a pickax or to mine for ore, you just become a hoarder after that.

2 maxing out exploitable skills will YES give lots of free perks & get your level up fast, good yes?...........in a way no, why?...........you will be level 40 for example and you will notice that all your main skill will still be weak............armors still between 20-30, blocking & archery the same..............you will be a high level but very weak............you will be playing level 40 badies.

3 a trap of power leveling is all the extra perks............this is where it all can go wrong, PLAN distribution because they can run out very fast...........so if you run out of perks at level 50 and you need a vital perk for a skill tree............you will have to do a full level to get the next perk that you could have had but put it into barter

Morgan · Nov 29, 2015

CitizenKane said:
Hi,

For all the hours I've dropped on Skyrim I still am pretty ignorant on the intricacies of certain game play mechanics, particularly leveling. So my question is this:

I am currently at level 30. I have a couple of skills at level 15 that I want to increase (to 100 or as close as possible, in as short a space of time as possible).

I know that the higher your level, the longer it takes to get to the next level. But does this same apply to individual skills? E.g. because I'm now at level 30, will it take me longer to get a certain skill from 15 to 100 than it would have if I had started to level that skill at level 1?

One obvious obstacle I can see is that because I'm at a higher level it will take me longer to get perk points and make my way up the skill tree, but I have about half a dozen spare perk points which should help me along, so assuming this won't be an issue, can anyone advise as to whether it will take me longer to level up on a couple of skills now because I'm starting to do so at a higher level?

Many thanks!

No. The amount of "training bits" it takes to get a skill from 15-16 is exactly the same whether you are first level or 50th. You already addressed the perk problem. In fact, at higher levels, it'll probably be a lot easier, since you have more resources to assist you in training than you would if you were training the skill from level 1 (eg enchanted gear, spell books, money, fallback to higher skills if things get rough, etc . . . ).

Edit to add: Also, depending on the skill, you can really get a lot of mileage out of trainers, especially if you get lucky and there's a trainer-merchant for that skill. Alchemy is extremely easy to level for this reason: go to one of the many alchemy trainer-merchants and train your five, then make potions, sell them to the trainer for your money back, level, train another five, repeat. The light armor trainer in Riften is the best for this because she's a light armor trainer but a general purpose merchant.

Nocte Aeterna · Nov 29, 2015

I don't think it's ever too late to powerlevel, really.

Is it too late to start power-leveling?

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